CONTENTS

Pag.
[Frontispiece], reproduced from a copper engraving in Swedenborg’s ›Opera Philosophica et Mineralia›, Vol. I., printed in Dresden and Leipzig, in 1734.
Title Page[5]
The vignette on the title page is reproduced from the medal struck in honour of Emanuel Swedenborg, in 1852, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Introduction[9]
Swedenborg’s investigations in natural science.
Swedenborg’s mathematical, mechanical and astronomical investigations[11]
Swedenborg’s geological, mineralogical, chemical, physical, and cosmological investigations[14]
Swedenborg’s anatomical and physiological investigations[16]
The basis for Swedenborg’s statements concerning the functions of the brain.
On the centres of the vegetative functions[27]
On the centres of the psychical functions, especially the sensory centres[28]
On the centres of the motor functions[32]
The doctrine of localizations[35]
The ›cerebellular theory›[43]
Concluding summary[47]
Notes[50]

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S INVESTIGATIONS
IN NATURAL SCIENCE AND THE BASIS
FOR HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN

In recent times Emanuel Swedenborg has, on many sides, been the object of a continually increasing interest, and year after year has attention been called to the manysided works of his life. In former times he was known almost exclusively through his religious writings. But it has gradually come to light that he was also an investigating genius of the first rank, who opened new paths in several branches of the natural sciences and made wonderful discoveries.